On Wendy Doniger's "The Hindus"

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I have been reading Wendy Doniger's The Hindus: An Alternative History for a seminar on India I am leading this summer with a group of ...

A Few Scattered Notes after Visiting Trinidad

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Our visit to Trinidad coincided (purely by chance) with the national T&T holiday known as Indian Arrival Day, as well as a 20/20 Cricket...

Off to Trinidad

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I am going to Trinidad next week with family. The ostensible reason is to attend, and present, at a conference at UWI on Global South Asian ...

"Over and Over He Said 'Survive'": the Poetry of Khaled Mattawa in Light of Libya

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I was lucky, at Duke in the mid-1990s, to overlap for a few years with the Libyan poet and translator Khaled Mattawa, then enrolled in Duke...

Poetry in the Protests -- Abu Al-Qasim Al-Shabi

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[Cross-posted at Guernica ]  Protest poetry and music sometimes rises to the surface during popular uprisings, crystallizing popular senti...

Revisiting Ahmed Ali: Twilight in Delhi (1940)

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[Note to friends: I'm doing a version of this as a talk a couple of different times in the next few weeks. Any feedback, corrections, o...

In Defense of India's Literary Culture (Dalrymple, Bal, Jaipur, etc.)

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There's an interesting -- though rather awkward -- debate up right now at Open Magazine, between William Dalrymple and Hartosh Singh Bal...

In Delhi, at the Library

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For the past few days I've been ensconced in south Delhi, mainly visiting the city's research libraries as well as friends and famil...

Another look at P. Lal -- With a Focus on the Poetry

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A few weeks ago I did a post on the Calcutta Writers' Workshop . Just about two weeks later, P. Lal, the founder of the Writers Workshop...

"Commonwealth" and "Postcolonial" Studies Journals: Some History

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A few years ago, when I was going up for tenure at Lehigh, I did a blog post compiling links to several postcolonial studies journals  I was...

A Brief Note About Jainendra Kumar's "The Resignation"

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I came across Jainendra Kumar's The Resignation ( Tyaga-Patra ; 1937) as I was combing through the library looking for work associated w...

Update on "After the Wars"

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Several friends on Facebook had further suggestions for the "After the Wars" course I mentioned in my blog post yesterday . Here a...

New Course in the works: After the Wars--Literature of Globalization

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I'm teaching a new course in spring 2011 called "After the Wars: Literature of Globalization." I got the idea after re-reading...

Mulk Raj Anand: on the Language Debate and his Aunt's Caste-related Suicide

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For a long time I resisted reading much of Mulk Raj Anand's work -- there simply seemed to be too much, and much of what I had looked at...

Revisiting the Calcutta Writers Workshop

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I remember finding volumes printed by the Calcutta Writers Workshop while browsing the library as a young graduate student, but at the time ...